Thomas Fabritius Eskebæk

(Editor’s note: Greg Collier is the founder and CEO of Geebo.com, an online classified advertising site. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
When I launched Geebo.com in May 2000, the goal was simple: Provide a web-based alternative to newspape…

An academic review combining the “customer’s job to be done (JTBD)” (also described in “The Customer- Centered Innovation Map” by Lance A. Bettencourt and Anthony W. Ulwick published in Harvard Business Review”) with “customer value proposition (CPV)” to propose a framework for how organizations can create innovative products or business models outside the core of [...]

The visual problem solving framework proposed by Dan Roam in his books The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures and Unfolding the Napkin: The Hands-On Method for Solving Complex Problems with Simple Pictures is incredibly useful and inspiring.
The Back of the Napkin introduces the visual problem solving framework and its [...]

Bryan Menell is the cofounder and managing director of Capital Factory, a seed-stage mentoring program for technology companies. He is also the publisher of AustinStartup, which highlights emerging technology companies in Austin.
In the bad old dotcom…

(Editor’s note: Marty Abbott and Michael Fisher are partners with AKF Partners and have recently published The Art of Scalability. They submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
You can learn a lot of things in the classroom.
A lot of the knowledge you

(Editor’s note: Dharmesh Shah is a serial software entrepreneur and the founder and CTO of HubSpot, which provides marketing software for small businesses. This column originally appeared on his blog. )
For some reason, I like wordsmithing and tryin…

I am very fascinated with LEGO Factory, a website enabling users to download a program with which you can build virtual 3D LEGO models and upload them to ‘LEGO Gallery’ and display them for the online LEGO community. The user and other users can purchase the ‘kit’ (i.e. the LEGO pieces necessary to build the [...]

Lots of companies are downsizing and laying off substantial parts of their work forces - even among the most “secure” and “respected” companies, things are changing very rapidly.
Recently I learned about a 2.500 people company having to cut 10%. This was achieved by going through each division, department, section, and team and picking out 10% [...]